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Sinopsis
Bad books and good advice from two questionably young adults. Join 30-something YA enthusiasts Grace Atwood and Becca Freeman every other week for a book club featuring a young adult title that they promise you won't be able to put down. In between, they'll share their best tips for "adulting" helping you do everything from finding the right career to the perfect face serum.
Episodios
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last Book Club & Notes App Follow Up
27/03/2024 Duración: 01h04minThis week we’re discussing our March Book Club Pick: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez! We talk about the artists that inspired this story, the themes that impacted us the most, and more! We also share listener-submitted follow ups on our Notes App conversation. Obsessions Olivia - Elf Glow Reviver Lip Oil, Rose Envy Becca - Rhode skincare What we read this week Becca - Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter Olivia - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez This Month’s Book Club Pick - Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Prose - get your free consultation and 50% off at prose.com/bop Cozy Earth - use code BOP for up to 35% off site wide at cozyearth.com. BOP Stuff: Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Or chat with us on Geneva. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Olivia’s Stuff: Pre-order Olivia’s Book, Such a B
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March 2024 Three Things
20/03/2024 Duración: 01h08sIt’s time for Three Things and we have a lot to cover, so let’s dive in! Olivia’s things Kate Middleton A game FMKs Our Favorite Substacks Becca’s things What you do when you’re struggling with procrastination (get the Time Timer Becca mentioned here) The State of Culture 2024 on Substack The Idea Of You Trailer Our favorite Substacks Feed Me by Emily Sundberg After School by Casey Lewis Publishing Confidential by Kathleen Schmidt Extracurricular by Tembe Denton Hurst Morning Person by Leslie Stevens Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe Obsessions Becca: Jeffrey Campbell Pearl Mesh Ballet Flats Olivia: 1000 words by Jami Attenberg What we read this week Olivia: 1000 words by Jami Attenberg Becca: United by Cory Booker This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Prose - Get your free consultation, then 50% off at prose.com/bop.
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What’s in Our Notes App
13/03/2024 Duración: 56minThe notes App can be used for more than celebrity apologies, so we decided to dedicate an episode to diving into what's in our Notes App! Specifically Notes App organization, the most useful notes we keep, the weirdest notes we find on our phones, and more! Let us know the innovative/smart/weird ways you use the Notes App by calling in at 843-405-3157. Obsessions Becca - Chobani Cinnamon French Toast Creamer Olivia - American Fiction What we read this week Olivia: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas Becca: Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (out 6/11), Bride by Ali Hazelwood This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors McMillan - Listen to Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez wherever you get your audiobooks! Cozy Earth - Get up to 35% off site-wide when you use the code BOP at cozyearth.com Join our Faceb
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Three Things with Author Tia Williams: Love is Blind, American Fiction, and Her New Novel
06/03/2024 Duración: 51minWe’re so excited for another guest Three Things with author Tia Williams! We chat about Love is Blind, American Fiction (with an Oscar movie sidebar), and her new novel A Love Song for Ricki Wilde! Tia Williams is the author of the novels The Accidental Diva, It Chicks, Sixteen Candles, The Perfect Find (now a Netflix movie starring Gabrielle Union), Seven Days in June, and her latest novel, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde just came out last month! We also ask Tia for beauty recs, which include Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer, Tom Ford Soleil de Feu, Rare Beauty Blushes, and Ilia Mascara. Obsessions Olivia: Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me.. Now Becca: Bare chicken tenders This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Brook Eyewear - Bad on Paper listeners can take 15% off orders at Brookeyewear.com with code BOP. Cozy Earth - Get 35
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Good Material Book Club
28/02/2024 Duración: 57minWe’re so excited to discuss Good Material by Dolly Alderton! This one gave us mixed feelings, which means a great discussion is ahead. We talk about how reading from a man’s point of view impacted our reading experience, our favorite funny parts, what we thought of the relationship dynamics in the book, and MORE! The article that we thought of while reading this book is linked here! Obsessions Olivia - Lavender shower bombs Becca - Kindle Paperwhite Signature What we read this week Olivia - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer, The Comeback by Ella Berman Becca - Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering (out March 5) and Good Material by Dolly Alderton This Month’s Book Club Pick - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xotchitl Gonzalez (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors ZocDoc - Zocdoc.com/BOP and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Prose - Get a free consultation and fifty
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February 2024 Three Things
21/02/2024 Duración: 54minIt's time for another round of Three Things! Including things we’re reading, listening, and watching that we had to talk about…and Paul Giamatti. Becca’s Three Things Renaissance Act ii Pastries A Paul Giamatti X Cher anecdote Olivia’s Three Things One Day on Netflix (And a companion to One Day by Farrah Storr from Becca) Everyone’s a sellout now on Vox Favorite acts of self-kindness Obsessions Becca: Substack as a place to scroll Olivia: Face Globes What we read this week Olivia: The Wild One by Colleen McKeegan, Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody Becca: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (June 11); Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan (June 4) This Month’s Book Club Pick - Good Material by Dolly Alderton (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Prose - Get 50% off your first subscription order today PLUS 15% off and free shipping on every subscription order after that at Prose.com/bop Framebridge - Go t
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Obscure Erotica Part 2
14/02/2024 Duración: 58minRomance is in the air! We were feeling adoorable this Valentine’s Day and thought we’d Linc up and dive back into some obscure erotica. Join us…if you dare! Obsessions Becca: Norah Ephron, specifically I’ll Have What She’s Having and Everything is Copy Olivia: @poppincandyofficial, Hvladimir the Beluga Whale What we read this week Becca: Still Writing by Dani Shapiro This Month’s Book Club Pick - Good Material by Dolly Alderton (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Cozy Earth - Get up to 35% off sitewide when you use the code BOP at cozyearth.com. Better Help - Visit betterhelp.com/BADONPAPER to get 10% off your first month. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Order Becca’s Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! Pre-order Olivia’s Book, Such a Bad Influence! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuent
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2024 Reading preview!
07/02/2024 Duración: 01h16minIt’s time for one of our favorite episodes of the year, our 2024 reading preview! We chat with Jordyn Walker, Haley Jakobson, Tomi Obebe, Steven Rowley, and Amanda Montell about their most anticipated reads of 2024! We also ask them the very important question: If you could have a meal with any fictional character at any chain restaurant, who are you going with and where are you taking them? Olivia’s 2024 Picks Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander Jordyn’s 2024 Picks Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna Haley’s 2024 Picks Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore (out August 20) The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia (out May 7) Tomi’s 2024 Picks House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (our March 5) Steven’s 2024 Picks Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley (out February 27) The Women by Kristin Hannah Amanda’s 2024 Picks All Fours by Miranda July So
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Four Thousand Weeks Book Club
31/01/2024 Duración: 56minThis week, we’re discussing our January Book Club pick, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. We discuss how the book compared to our expectations and our relationships with time, as well as the book’s takes on perfectionism, control, “The joy of missing out,” and more! Obsessions O: The Trust on Netflix B: Slow Horses on Apple TV+ What we read this week Becca: Daisy Haites, The Great Undoing, and Magnolia Parks into the Dark by Jessa Hastings Olivia: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman February’s Book Club Pick - Good Material by Dolly Alderton (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors ZocDoc - Go to Zocdoc.com/BOP and download the Zocdoc app for FREE and find and book a top-rated doctor today. Prose - Go to prose.com/bop for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 50% off your first subscription order. Glamorous Trash - You can find Glamorous Trash anywhere you listen to podcasts. Join our F
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Podcast Host & Author Kate Kennedy’s Three Things
24/01/2024 Duración: 49minThis year we’re shaking up our guest interview format, and bringing in highly requested guest Kate Kennedy to share her Three Things! Kate is the host of Be There in Five and the author of One in a Millenial, an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, and the millennial zeitgeist. Kate’s Three Things TikTok aesthetic microtrends Welcome to Plathville Going idle on AIM Obsessions Becca: NY Times Connections Olivia: Josiah & The Bonnevilles Lemming What we read this week Becca: One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin (out 6/18), Still Writing by Dani Shapiro Olivia: The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza This Month’s Book Club Pick - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Prose - Get 50% off your first subscription order today PLUS 15% off and free shipping on every subscription order after that at Prose.com/bop Framebridge - Visit fram
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January 2024 Three Things
17/01/2024 Duración: 52minIt’s time for our first Three Things of 2024! We’re so excited to share what we’ve been watching, reading, and questioning lately. Olivia’s things In & Out lists Gypsy Rose Blanchard Saltburn Becca This NYT Article about Michael Stipe Naked Attraction The Pantone Color of the Year 2024 Obsessions Becca: Vick’s Sinus Steamer Olivia: Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen What we read this week Becca: First Lie Wins By Ashley Elston This Month’s Book Club Pick - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Cozy Earth - Get 35% off sitewide at cozyearth.com with code BOP. Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Order Becca’s Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow
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Our 2024 Goals
10/01/2024 Duración: 01h07minWe’re back! And we’re so excited to kick off 2024 by setting out goals for this year! But first, we check in on how our 2023 goals went. Obsessions Becca: Her Vibes board phone background Olivia: Bear Brook Podcast What we read this week Olivia: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham The Last Murder at The End of the World by Stuart Turton Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Becca: Snowed In by Catherine Walsh This Spells Love by Kate Robb Novelist as Vocation by Haruki Murakami All About Love by Bell Hooks This Month’s Book Club Pick - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Cozy Earth - Get 35% off sitewide at cozyearth.com when you use the code BOP. Framebridge - Visit Framebridge.com or a retail store to custom frame just about anything! Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! O
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Best Books of 2023
13/12/2023 Duración: 01h02minFor the last episode of 2023, it’s time to talk about the best books we read in this year! Becca and Olivia each share their top 10 books they read, and we play calls from listeners sharing their favorite books from 2023! Becca’s Best Books of the Year: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Tom Lake by Ann Patchett You Again by Kate Goldbeck Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Allison Rose Greenberg Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donahue Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir The Bodyguard by Katherine Center The Celebrants by Steven Rowley Olivia’s best books of the year Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Whispers by Ashley Audrain The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman Yellowface by RF Kuang Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Talking at Night by Clare Daverley Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon Banyan Moon by Thao Thai Listener Best Books of the Year The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland The Coffee Shop o
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Best of 2023
06/12/2023 Duración: 57minAs the year comes to a close, we want to look back at the good stuff and discuss our best of 2023! We dive into our personal best moments and talk about some of our favorite things from this year! Best Entertainment Best TV Show Becca - The Diplomat Olivia - Shrinking Best Movie Becca - Barbie Olivia - Past Lives Best (New to us) Podcast Becc - Writer’s Routine, Publishing Rodeo Olivia - Writer’s Routine Best Concert Olivia - The Eras Tour, Noah Kahan Best Album Becca - You’ll Get It When You’re Older by Blake Rose Olivia - Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever), Noah Kahan Best Song Becca - Is It Over Now by Taylor Swift; That Was Then by Emily James; Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan w/ Lizzy McAlpine Olivia - The View Between Villages, Noah Kahan, Not Strong Enough by BoyGenius, Labour by Paris Paloma Best (New to us) IG follow Becca - @Famouspplreading Olivia - @Oh_apostrophe Best BOP episode Becca - Obscure Erotica Book Reviews, How Becca’s Book Got Made Olivia -Obscure Erotica Book Rev
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The Christmas Orphans Club Book Club
29/11/2023 Duración: 01h02minThis week, we’re diving into Becca’s Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! This is the ONLY time we’ll be spoiling this book for a while, so if you haven’t read the book yet and don’t want to get spoiled, save this episode for when you finish the book! We talk about what elements of the book were there since Becca’s first draft, the highs and lows of their writing process, how she balanced the lighthearted tone with big emotions, and what book-related questions she wished she got asked more. Becca also answers listener questions about characters, story choices, and more! Obsessions Becca - Dorsey tennis necklace Olivia - Flameless candles What we read this week Olivia - Talking at Night by Claire Daverley Becca - Lovelight Farms by BK Borison Sponsors Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/BADONPAPER today to get 10% off your first month. Macmillan - listen to your favorite Macmillan titles like Minka Kelly’s memoir Tell Me Everything and John Stamos’ memoir If You Would Have Told Me wherever books and
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2023 Gift Guide with My Sister Made Me Buy It
22/11/2023 Duración: 57minHappy gift guide season! This week we’re talking all things gifts with Sarah of @my.sister.made.me.buy.it, an account full of fashion, undergarment, blanket, travel, and pen recommendations. We share gift ideas for BFFs, Co-Workers, Significant Others, Tweens, People who have everything, and what we’d gift ourselves! Our Picks: BFF - Rainbow Splash Cups from Coming Soon, Fancy Friend Dates, Colorful/fancy matches + match strikers Co-worker/casual acquaintance - 5 $1 scratch-off tickets + Le Pens, Kaweco pens, Inside Joke merch + DIY work kit. Significant other/spouse - Concert/Comedy tickets, Framed objects from Framebridge, Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar The Person Who Has Everything - Let’s Eat by Grossy Pelosi or More is More by Molly Baz, Sweater Shaver, The Sleep Crown, Stocking stuffer - Amazon hair clips, Tate’s Bake Shop Cookie Bark, Microstitch, Identity protection stamps Self - Missoma Jelly Heart Charm Bracelet, Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones, Dorsey Clemence Necklace Tween Gifts - Drun
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What's on our nightstand
15/11/2023 Duración: 58minLotion! Books! Earplugs! Dried-up contact lenses! This week, we’re talking about our nightstand essentials from the things that improve our nighttime routine to the things that are just weird. Olivia’s Nightstand: Weleda Skin Food, Aquaphor stick, books (currently: Rooms of Our Own by Louise Pennington, Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue), Necessaire Body Serum, a pile of dried contacts, glasses, claw clip graveyard, water bottle graveyard. Becca’s Nightstand: Gold Bond Crepe Corrector, Ring Dish from West Elm, Retainers, Tatcha Lip Mask, Laneige Lip Mask, Goop Night Cream (discontinued), Ear Plugs, Diptyque Rose Candle, Ahava baby eczema cream, Amazon Alarm Clock, Amazon sleep mask, Globe bedside sconce (old/unavailable), Princess flashlight. Listener Nightstand essentials include reading lights, mouth tape, micellar water, Stanley water bottle, Lush Sleepy Lotion, Eye Bra Eye Masks, Tempur-Pedic Sleep Masks, Amazon Smart Plugs & Echo, Dr. Teals Fo
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November 2023 Three Things
08/11/2023 Duración: 52minTime for a fun batch of Things! Three from each of us, to be exact. Olivia’s Things What are your holiday vibes for 2023? Opinions on New Year’s Eve as a Holiday Is long hair cheugy now? Becca’s Things Becca’s new favorite kitchen tool - a garlic-chopper The Woman in Me by Britney Spears What are your glimmers? Obsessions Olivia - Geneva! Becca - Knitting What we read this week! Olivia: You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose B: 1,000 Words by Jami Attenberg (out 1/9); The Woman in Me by Britney Spears This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Or join our Geneva! Subscribe to Olivia’s Newsletter! Preorder Becca’s Book! Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Oli
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NaNoWriMo Q&A with literary agent Carly Watters
01/11/2023 Duración: 59minTo celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we’re chatting with Carly Watters, SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast! We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how book deals are made, if it actually is harder than ever to sell a book right now, and more! Books about writing Carly recommends On Writing by Stephen King Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses Obsessions Olivia - Tayvis (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce) Becca - A Thing or Two’s October 9 Episode: Rats, Rain Clogs, and Romance, Birkenstock Boston Clogs What we read this week Olivia - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Becca - Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (out 11/14) This Month’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Prose - Take your FRE
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The Quiet Tenant Book Club
25/10/2023 Duración: 49minThis week we’re talking about our October Book Club Pick, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon! We talk about Becca’s expectations of the book vs what her thoughts were reading, our thoughts on the second person narration, how the book centered the women in this story, if the ending surprised and satisfied us, and more! Trigger warning for sexual assault in this book, so please skip it if you’re not in a place to listen! Obsessions Becca - Jessica Yellin’s newsletter; Under the Desk News Olivia - Past Lives What we read this week! Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Throwback by Maurene Goo, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon November’s Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors Nuuly - Take $20 off your first month of Nuuly when you sign up with the code BOP20 at nuuly.com. Prose - Go to Prose.com/BOP for your F